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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCHThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their…

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Includes a new interview with Amos Oz.Internationally acclaimed novelist Amos Oz grew up in war-torn Jerusalem, where as a…

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Machiavelli's highly influential treatise on political power 'It is far safer to be feared than loved...' The Prince shocked…

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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for FictionThe Counterlife is about people living their dreams of renewal…

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Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was…

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`May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic…

Includes poems that use multiple viewpoints - from Darwin himself, to his beloved wife Emma, and even, at one point, the…

Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention) in…

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the most successful Republican political operative of his generation, a searing,…

Her Aunt was Virginia Woolf, her mother Vanessa Bell, and her father Duncan Grant, though for many years Angelica believed…

Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he was born into a tribe of Greenes based in Berkhamstead at…

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This collection, which contains all his most memorable works and a selection of his letters, is a feast for the senses,…

The only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician. This is the…

Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration…

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In the summer of 1953, maverick neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville performed a groundbreaking operation on an epileptic…

Sartre's powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the novelists,…

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An electrifying memoir from a Mexican-American US Border Patrol guard. Haunted by nightmares, Cantu abandons the Patrol for…

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The Sunday Times bestseller that reveals the uncomfortable truth about race and identity in Britain todayYou're British.…

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`Superb' William Boyd`Fascinating... An exceptional story of espionage and betrayal, thrillingly told' Philippe Sands`A…

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From the former secretary of defense and author of the acclaimed #1 bestselling memoir, Duty, a candid, sweeping examination…

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The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a…

In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a…

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Drawing on unprecedented access to military reports and government documents, as well as hundreds of interviews, Farrell…

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When Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for $24 in 1626 he showed his shrewdness by also buying the oyster beds off tiny, nearby…

A new edition of this seminal book, now with a new introduction by the author on the current crisisHow can society cope with…

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Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Scottish Herald 'The beauty of the prose is in contrast with the horror…

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An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring…

A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The…

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A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A groundbreaking work that overturns the conventional understanding of the…

What has made women unhappy in the last decade? Faludi writes 'is not their equality' - which they don't yet have - but the…

The selected essays of James Wood - our greatest living literary critic and author of How Fiction Works\'James Wood is a…

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In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to…

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Samuel Huntington's landmark book, The Clash of Civilizations, presented a vision of a world divided by cultural…

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In these interviews, given between 1962 and 1980, Barthes speaks about the development of his thought, explaining why and…

The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Now, award-winning biographer Nigel Hamilton gives us the…

The Forest People is an astonishingly intimate and life-enhancing account of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in harmony with…

In What Is the Grass, Doty - a poet, a lover of men, a New Yorker, and an American - keeps company with Whitman and his…

The third, enlarged edition of Isaiah Berlin's remarkable series of character portraits, Personal ImpressionsWinston…

Based on a technique of impressing 'places' and 'images' on the mind, the ancient Greeks created an elaborate memory system…

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The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures,…

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The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof group constitutes one of the most remarkable phenomena of post-war Europe. The…

Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of…

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By the time Herzog was published in 1964, Saul Bellow was probably the most acclaimed novelist in America. This book traces…

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